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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2018, Vol. 33 Issue (1): 24-30,123    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2018.01.004
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BOUNDARY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGINED COMMUNITY: A CASE STUDY OF OVERSEAS CHINESE VILLAGE COMMUNITY IN GUANGZHOU
WANG Min1,2, ZHAO Mei-ting1, JIANG Rong-hao3, ZHU Hong1,2
1. School of Geographical Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
2. Centre for Cultural Industry and Cultural Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
3. School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China

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Abstract  Along with the process of the urbanization, the declined Overseas Chinese enclave has gradually been transformed from an objective existence into a symbolized community. To a significant extent, the change of the material and cultural forms of overseas Chinese village has reinforced the re-imagination as space embedded in overseas Chinese culture, triggering relevant changes of their boundaries. Based on the case study of overseas Chinese village community in Guangzhou and the method of life story, this paper attempts to discuss the changing boundary of the overseas Chinese village community in Guangzhou and its impact on the imagined community. Also, it analyzes the mechanism and motivation of the symbolized community of the overseas Chinese village community. On the one hand, the reconstruction of overseas Chinese village's material boundary is not only related to the material form, but also associated with the weakening spatial representation of the returned overseas Chinese identity. This paper argues that the bonds among the returned overseas Chinese in oversea Chinese village have been transformed as the collective memory from the national interest and the yearning for happy life. Moreover, it also reflects the coupling relationship among the changing social environment, spatial morphology and neighborhood, and the construction of the self-sense and the identity of the returned overseas Chinese. The overseas Chinese village's geographical imagination is based on its material forms.
Key wordsimagined community      boundary      overseas Chinese enclave      Narrative research     
Received: 13 December 2016     
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